September 03, 2025 - Denver, CO: From Zero World Tour

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After concluding their strong run of shows across the Midwest, Linkin Park has set their sights on the Western US for the From Zero World Tour, with the next stop in Denver, Colorado tomorrow! The band has played in Denver and its suburbs throughout their history, hitting the Denver area during every touring era. This will not be changing with the From Zero era either. This will be the group’s first Denver-area date since 2014 and the first in Denver proper since 2011.

The band's show tomorrow will be at Ball Arena in downtown Denver, returning the band to a venue they've played on multiple occasions before. Linkin Park played at this arena, home of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, when it was known as Pepsi Center. Across the band's prior cycles they have played a mix of arenas, stadiums, and amphitheaters throughout the Denver area, consistently including Denver in their itineraries.

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Denver first met Linkin Park in October 2000, when the band hit the Ogden Theatre on the Ridin’ High Tour as openers for Kottonmouth Kings. With no confirmed setlist from this night, the closest snapshot we have is from eight days earlier, in Springfield, Missouri. Featuring most of the album sans "Crawling" and "Pushing Me Away," the Springfield set likely looks similar to what the band played their first time in Denver.

The band returned in February 2001 to headline the Gothic Theatre in the Denver suburb of Englewood, for the Street Soldiers Tour. This date also has no confirmed setlist, but dates in San Bernardino three days prior and St. Louis four days later point to a "With You" opener and some deep cuts such as "And One" and the new "High Voltage" reboot.

June 2001 brought Ozzfest to Mile-High Stadium, their first Colorado stadium appearance and the seventh stop of 2001's Ozzfest. After an opening loop consisting of "My December" elements, the band launched into "With You" to kick off their ten-song set that featured all but the two final tracks on Hybrid Theory.

Full audio recording of the band's Ozzfest set in Denver in 2001. From the LPLive Archive.​

Later that same fall, the band returned to Denver in November 2001 on the Family Values Tour, performing just before that year's headliner, Stone Temple Pilots. The band played their hip-hop heavy EP cut "Step Up" and also featuring Staind's Aaron Lewis as a guest vocalist on "One Step Closer"—a collaboration foreshadowing Lewis's guest spot on "Krwling" for Reanimation.

Audio recording of the band's Family Values performance in late 2001 in Denver. From the LPLive Archive.​

After the band took a well-deserved break to put the finishing touches on Meteora, they embarked on another packed touring cycle, which included multiple stops in Denver. In August 2003, Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour rolled into Invesco Field at Mile High, putting Linkin Park on Denver’s biggest stage for a second time. While this setlist is also technically unknown, it's hard to imagine it's dissimilar to the adjacent dates, featuring "Figure.09" and "Numb" while incorporating Reanimation elements into songs such as "With You," "Points of Authority," "One Step Closer," as well as full playthrough of "P5hng Me A*wy." It is known that Chester Bennington came out to guest during Deftones' set, providing additional vocals on "My Own Summer (Shove It)."

August 2004 saw the third Projekt Revolution tour come to the Coors Amphitheatre, in another Denver suburb named Greenwood Village. That night brought Mike's hip-hop mashup of "Step Up," "Nobody's Listening," and "It's Goin' Down," as well as several other tour staples such as "Breaking the Habit" with an extended piano intro, a punchy cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Wish," and two guest vocal features: Bert McCracken of The Used on "Faint" and Jonathan Davis on "One Step Closer," performing his Reanimation feature vocals. Proshot footage of this performance was officially released on DVD with the Meteora 20th anniversary super deluxe box set.

Footage of "Figure.09" and "From the Inside" live from Greenwood Village in 2004.​

After the band's well-deserved break between Meteora and Minutes to Midnight, Linkin Park brought Projekt Revolution back to Greenwood Village in September 2007. This was the final show of that year's Projekt Revolution run, which featured My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo, and Julien-K on the main stage alongside Linkin Park. To celebrate the conclusion of that tour, the band invited all of the Projekt Revolution acts to come on stage for "Faint" for a grand finale to the tour.

Soundboard audio of "Faint" concluding Projekt Revolution 2007.

Partial audience footage of "Faint" at the end of the 2007 Greenwood Village set.​

Projekt Revolution would return to Greenwood Village one last time just under a year later in August 2008. Highlights from this show included the tour tradition of Chris Cornell guesting on "Crawling," the 2008 version of "Cure for the Itch," and one of the last few performances of "In Pieces"—which would only be performed five more times throughout the rest of that tour, not to be seen since. At this point, the band had transitioned "Bleed It Out" to its traditional position as an extended encore closer, and Street Drum Corps provided additional percussion support at this show.

Audience recording of "No More Sorrow" opening the band's 2008 performance, complete with the Street Drum Corps intro.​

Linkin Park continued to perform in Denver throughout their following album cycles, returning in February 2011 in support of A Thousand Suns, threading their production with the narrative segues and interludes emphasized on the album. Notables included "When They Come for Me" flowing straight into an extended-intro "No More Sorrow," "Numb" carrying Oppenheimer’s words and vocoded "The Catalyst" lines into "Breaking the Habit," and an encore that opened with "Wisdom, Justice, and Love" into "Iridescent."

Audience video recording of "When They Come for Me" live in Denver, 2011.​

August 2012 lined up the Honda Civic Tour in Englewood, as Linkin Park brought along Incubus and Mutemath. The show opened with "TINFOIL" into "Faint," worked the first verse of "UNTIL IT BREAKS" and Wall of Noise outro around "Waiting for the End," and brought the breakneck "VICTIMIZED" and "QWERTY" mashup. Incubus's guitarist Mike Einziger guested on "Bleed It Out," coming out for the extended bridge featuring a cover of Beastie Boys’ "Sabotage."

Full audience video footage of Linkin Park's 2012 Honda Civic Tour performance in Englewood.​

The band's final performance in the Denver area was in Englewood yet again, in September 2014 for the Carnivores Tour, featuring their mashup-heavy, interlude-forward setlist design aimed at touching as much of the Linkin Park catalog as possible. Opening with the blistering lead single from The Hunting Party—"Guilty All the Same"—the show weaved in elements from across the band's history, including "Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You," an instrumental abridged version of "Robot Boy," and a DJ solo set by Joe Hahn that wove together elements from songs including "Wretches and Kings," "Session," Plc.4 Mie Hæd," and even Marilyn Manson's "Buy Myself" remix.

Mike's solo mashup set from Englewood in 2014, featuring "Wretches and Kings" and "Remember the Name," before heading into "Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You."​

With the From Zero World Tour in full swing, Linkin Park has returned to Denver once again to rock the Mile-High City. The band has delivered some unexpected shuffles that have added some surprise to their sets recently as well. After the unexpected run of "Stained" in Act 1 across several shows, two nights ago in Kansas City they once again shook up that first act by moving "Up from the Bottom" up to the third song of the set.

"Up from the Bottom" performed early in the setlist in Kansas City, Missouri.​

In Act 2, the band filled the usual “Up From the Bottom” position with “Cut the Bridge” prefaced by the short Moscow Intro it has traded off with "New Divide." The mid-set also brought support act Jean Dawson out as a guest. This Dawson's first time providing guest vocals since he came onto the tour in Philadelphia—he previously opened for the band at their 2024 date in Arlington as well. While PVRIS's Lynn Gunn guested on "BURN IT DOWN" for the first segment of this North America leg, Dawson came out for another LIVING THINGS track, "CASTLE OF GLASS."

"CASTLE OF GLASS" live in Kansas City, featuring Jean Dawson.​

The band has continued their main set closer and encore closer switch, but it has become increasingly difficult to predict, as it neither follows the setlist rotation or a back-and-forth switch, as we have seen with "CASTLE OF GLASS" and "LIES GREED MISERY." It remains anyone's guess whether "Faint" or "Bleed It Out" will close the night in Denver!

Linkin Park's performance of "Faint" in Omaha, Nebraska, which closed the show that night.​

With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you!

Are you attending the show in Denver? Head over to our official LPA Meetup Thread to let us know if so! Be sure to come discuss with us on our forums and share any photos or videos with us on Instagram or X @LPAssociation.

Upcoming Shows:
September 6: Phoenix, AZ
September 13: Los Angeles, CA
September 15: San Jose, CA
September 17: Sacramento, CA
September 19: Portland, OR
September 21: Vancouver, BC

 

If anyone is kind enough to post the show setlist in the usual nice and sweet format, I'll add it to the tour overview thread as well. Been lazily relying on that for a while